Since, I didn't see an official owners thread I thought I would create one. Please post with pics, benches, videos, and questions / comments. Below are some of my preliminary benches. Enjoy and have fun!

I've come across a few issues which may be related to the GTX 680 hardware and/or the v301.10 drivers. I'd appreciate it if someone could confirm them please.

They are:

1. F1 2010 under DX11 has a strange graphical artifact that appears at the bottom 1/5th of the screen, sometimes as a black block and sometimes as a black 'blob' that gradually gets bigger. I've tried different settings, including disabling AA, but nothing gets rid of it. The weird thing is that this issue doesn't appear in F1 2011 under DX11 with these drivers and wasn't there on my GTX 580 either.

2. Last time I played GTA IV it was loading fine; now it loads to the main screen but gets stuck in a loop of showing the character artwork and never finishes loading. If I bring up Task Manager then GTA IV is "not responding" and I have to force it to end manually. Same thing happens on Episodes from Liberty City too. I've done a Repair and reinstalled the last Title Updates manually again as well but the same issue occurs.

I thought it was forcing FXAA that was doing this but when I disable it the same thing still happens so it is not that. I Goggled the error and found a thread from 2009 with many people having the same issue; the developers suggested uninstalling iTunes and QuickPlayer but I've been using those for years and was still able to play GTA IV so I'm not uninstalling those just to find out they aren't the cause.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? How do you fix it (please don't tell me I have to uninstall and reinstall both games)?

if you look at the 7870/50 review it is a little slower than a 580. not worth the price imo for a 7870. not worth the $349.99-$369.99 pricetag

I'm not really concerned much with graphics performance. The whole 3 games I play, my 560Ti can handle just fine at comfortably high settings. At this point, I spend around 4-6hrs per week "gaming". I'm concerned strictly about GPGPU performance, which can show extreme variations depending on implementation. In LuxMark, the HD7870 very easily beats the GTX580. In Folding@Home though, AMD has always lacked a good bit in performance (PPD). If AMD finally has everything sorted and it performs as well in Folding@Home as it does in LuxMark, it'd be well worth the cost.

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Originally Posted by Agent-A01

lol you always have driver problems

nVidia's drivers have caused problems with F@H since the release of the 290 "branch"... I've stayed with 285.38 for that reason.

850mhz@1.050v results in certain WU's failing. I could successfully fold at 950mhz@1.050v until I started having issues with my UEFI freezing. Haven't been able to fold OC'd without receiving errors since. I'm sure it's a coincidence, but this board is getting replaced with an ASRock Z77 Pro4 or Z77 Extreme4 when they're released....as long as I'm not forced to do it sooner.

It seems cb came at -22c for me
I started off at +210 on core since @stock air the other card was ok for +170 i tried power from 100% to 132% in testing vantage and d311 3d03
I did not even see if this card worked,right out of the box and prepped for cold went back to 480/470 t6 screws btw. i did not want to deface the cards(yet) so maybe later i will cb mod but not now.
It was pita tbh with the cb so low i took a chance if i got it over a temp "bump" so i went -51c ,nah it did not work
got alittle wet by the time it was back down with my torch so i went back to stock air cus my 2500k was on dice too and wanted something for my efforts..heck i got some learning to do with these cards yet anyway so i need to mess around wth them more.
The boost clock novelty has worn thin already too.

drivers are alittle all over the place and feel they lack the grunt,in other words my 448 on dice put up just as good of marks in dx9
for some dx9 benches xp disk drivers 300.83 were better for some tests crap for others
i got awhole lot of nothing to show when on dice.
But i just put a good sized pice of dice covering the whole fan intake on a shop towel max temps in any bench was 44c load 10c idle
Just seeing if could keep watch of clocks in osd but idk
shtty scores my 7980 would run way better o3 160k clocked @1250 cpu 5.4

2500k 5.6 and 680 clocked i'd say they got a long way to go on drivers w7 no better./

Another problem I have is that F1 2010 and F1 2011 both start windowed and I have to press Alt-Enter to make them go fullscreen. Again, this didn't happen with my GTX 580. Do you think these are driver bugs and/or issues caused by the game not recognising my graphics card? Other than the visual glitch in F1 2010 only, both games play fine.

i dont even want to bother with sli now for what? vantage and 3d11 big deal.
I will get them both in sli tommorrow on my x79 and 3930k @5.0 thats all there are good for too.
lost 10c idle with h70 and loud fan normal temp air 59f ish going to see load temps now.

cherry picked review samples is my guess. my 2 launch 580`s need more voltage and seem to oc less as time went by lower voltage cards and higher clocks seemed more common place. sometimes you get that being an early adopter. I need 1.113v just for 875mhz lol
EDIT the stock volts are decent 1 is 1.025v and the other 1.0v

Smoke and mirrors speed for games thats it
good tess thuogh if you like that sorta thing.
Honestly the 7980 gave my 448 ti's in sli a better run in old guy benches.the 448's swamped this card.no dought because 5xx has been around and matured this card driver wise makes amd 's drivers look good.
I know they dont have the ram size but did seem to have the core power to push right thuo anything i threw at them.Thats 440 usd at amason for two.

Thats just mho about old guy benches thuo if it plays ss3 like a fiddle it would be nice.